Hello!

So the past week has been crazy busy but I am finally starting to feel a bit settled in.  I started classes two days ago, so I guess technically they havent really started.  I have a pretty large workload but i dont think its anything I cannot handle, and if worse comes to worse than at least none of my grades transfer over to the my G.P.A.  The last few nights have been party, party, party.. but all in good fun!  Kiwis love 3 things:  techno, dressing up in costumes, and crappy beer, so obviously I fit in just fine.   The kiwis I have met so far are really nice and really friendly, but in a much different way than the U.S.   Here are some of my most recent pictures from my orienation in Rotorua and my first few days in Dunedin. 

I went to the cadbury factory!!! It was delicious.

My bedroom (minus me)

The outside of my flat.  Its not the most attractive building in the world but it makes do.  

There are botanical gardens literally 2 minutes from my flat.  This is just one of the many unique trees there,.

There is this shop next to my flat where the artist makes animals out of old car parts.   Its really interesting, I will try to get more pictures of his work.  

More from the botanical gardens.  

This is the old railway station in Dunedin.   Many of the buildings here are awesome and have really unique architecture.  This train station is one of the citys most famous buildings.  Also the boy on the left is my roomate from Penn.  

We went on a train trip by gorges ( I thought of Ithaca), and it was so beautiful.  This landscape literally stretched for a good twenty minutes and probally went for much longer.  

It is not unusual at all in NZ to look around and see lots of little white dots along the mountain side.  Its sheep.  In fact New Zealand doesnt have much overgrown grass because the sheep are always munching on it.  

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Another gothic architecture building in Dunedin.  

View from the plane from Christ church to dunedin.  Im not sure if you can tell the difference between the mountain and the clouds but it was much more distinct from the window! So beautiful 

Maori's are the indigenous people of NZ.  We went to a sort of plymouth plantation like place but with Maori villages and stuff.  They also put on a dance and song show at the end.  

This was wayne.  

Maoris greetings are a bit differnt than ours in the u.s. 

Red woods forest!

The trees were massive